Smoking Facts: Facts About Smoking and Smoking Related Information.

The following list of smoking facts is taken from our stop smoking hypnosis download, "Stop Smoking with Hypnosis, and Know How You Did It"

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Heya!

Its almost now 6 weeks ago that I had a smoking hypnotherapy from you.

And I just wanted to let you know that its going great since that day I never touched a cig or smoked one!

Its great, I`m feeling great.

Thanks a lot for that!
oh and the stawberries are lovely!

Kind regards
Janice Rijken
(Name Used With Full Permission)

The Facts About Smoking

The Cigarette.

The tobacco leaf part of the cigarette, is actually composed of two main leaf types, one which has a higher nicotine content than the other. These two leaf types are combined in varying ratios in order to give each brand its distinctive properties and varying nicotine strength.

Filler.

The fillers give an unpleasant taste and smell when they are burned, so they are mixed with a wide range of chemicals and flavourings, to make them more palatable. These include products as diverse as chocolate, fig juice and liquorice. Sugars are then added, to make the smoke more tolerable to the palette, and moisturisers and preservatives are also added, to increase the finished product's shelf-life.

Passive Smoking.

When smoke is present in a room, something like 70% - 80% of that smoke comes directly from the burning tip of the cigarette. It is this smoke which contains the highest concentration of nicotine, tar, carbon monoxide, and many of the carcinogenic (cancer-causing) agents. 

The smoke has many dozens of chemicals that directly cause cancer, and it does this by attacking the DNA of the person breathing it in. Of course, the breathing of this smoke is not limited to the person smoking the cigarette, but will include everyone in the room.

The dangers of passive smoking is the main reason why many companies have now introduced a no smoking policy in the workplace, to protect non-smoking employees.

Low Tar Cigarettes.

They addressed this 'problem' by introducing 'low tar' cigarettes. Indeed, on a cigarette-to-cigarette basis, they do offer a slightly reduced amount of tar, and therefore, a slightly reduced risk of lung cancer. 

However, the reduction of nicotine that is also present, as well as a perceived reduction in risk, causes an individual to smoke a higher number of cigarettes than before. 

So in other words, increased consumption of the low-tar products, more than counteracts any possible 'benefit' of the lower tar brands. Indeed, there is evidence that some kinds of lung cancer are only associated with low-tar cigarettes.

Nicotine.

As soon as the smoker finishes the cigarette, the levels of nicotine in the bloodstream immediately start to drop. It continues to drop over time, until the smoker has to feed the craving once again. It is this property that has caused nicotine to be grouped with heroin and cocaine, in the way it creates addiction.

Sobering thought: If you put just 1/60th of a gramme of nicotine on your tongue, you would be dead within ten minutes. 

More facts like this can be found on the smoking statistics and smoker's body pages.

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